another photo study for phm(I am obsessed). always liked this scene. It symbolises despair but for some unfathomable reason it gives me hope. Two people running towards the fireball in the distance which is like earth's dying sun.
Spent 4 hrs on this but I think it's quite well spent.
Smiling softly, Merlin spread his hand over Arthur’s heart. “What about this?” He closed his eyes and let his magic flow through him and over Arthur, golden tendrils linking them just as the garland had done at their wedding.
With a sound that was half-sigh, half-laugh, Arthur tipped Merlin’s head up with a finger under his chin, and kissed him softly. “It feels like coming home.”
— On Our Knees (At the Curtains of the Waterfall) by @thesongistheriver (Chapter 4)
Created for @bbcmerlin-reversebang 2025-2026. Posted on AO3 here.
Oh my god, I didn't know there were any copies of this left on the internet. For those who don't know, this is like. This is a foundational text of hockey RPF. This is from before hockey RPF was really a thing even. It's from the mid-aughts and wasn't posted to a fanfiction website. Instead, OP dropped this insane RPF manifesto onto a normal ass hockey fan forum (which no longer exists) then deleted their account like two days later. Just handed this to a bunch of jocks and hockey bros and dipped. Legendary shit. Like, I don't think this kid even knew what fanfiction was, the fucking hand of god just compelled him to write about being an MLH player's sex slave and show it to the world. I pray every day that this insane child actually made it to the MLH and got to meet Scott Hunter.
So maybe Shane had a little crush on Scott Hunter in his younger years. So maybe he anonymously posted online about it once. So maybe it had become an internet legend and a running joke in the MLH.
Featuring coding and art from the magnificent @mock-speed! Here is the cover art, other art under the cut (10000% worth the click, just trust me <3)
I was enamored by an image of like, a dozen arion ater (aka european black slug, black arion) in a yogurt container so I decided to make one (also joann's had NO grey or brown in this fabric at the time). I'd also felt that being able to put a big gastropod on my face might make me feel better during my migraines, so that's another motivation.
It's big and weighted, made of stretch/mochi minky and silky poly fil. I had to add the pneumostome 'cause I'm extra like that and have to make every project more difficult.
Its currently in need of repairs, as its eyestalk is coming off D: